Box 1

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Text by George Santayana. Gouache on paper. Approximately 9 x 7 inches, main text 6 x 4 inches.

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Text from J.B.Phillips’ translation of 1 Corinthians 13. Approximately 14 x 11 inches, main text block 8 ½ x 6 inches.

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From The New English Bible. Gouache on paper. 10 ¾ x 9 inches, text.

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Text by Robert Frost. Ink and color. 11 ½ x 8 inches, text 8 ½ x 5 inches.

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Text from Romans 8:35, 37-39. Ink and gilding on paper. 15 x 12 ½, text 10 ½ x 8 ¾ inches.

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Text by X.J. Kennedy and Sonja Nikolay. Mitchell pen, Chinese ink stick, gouache titling and decoration on Saunders laid paper. 15 1/8 x 8 ¼ inches, text approximately 13 x 6 ½ inches.

Scope and Contents: Text from M.L Haskins. Signed Adler. Ink on paper. 7 x 5 inches, text 5 1/8 x 3 1/4. Calligraphy quote, first stanza of poem “God Knows.” Published in 1908, “God Knows” by Minnie Louise Haskins was part of a collection titled The Desert. It caught the public attention when the then-Princess Elizabeth handed a copy to her father, King George VI, and he quoted it in his 1939 Christmas broadcast. “God Knows” was widely acclaimed as inspirational, reaching its...

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Genesis 1:3. Written and drawn in dark blue gouache with burnished gold on vellum. 4 ¾ x 3 inches, image 2 x 1 ½ inches.

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Text from Denise Levertov. Ink, gold and [gouache?]. 10 x 8 ½ inches.

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Text by anonymous. Ink on paper. Approximately 6 x 7 ¾ inches. (A small version of this is in General Calligraphy: “Works by Other Calligraphers,” Box 6, Folder 8)